Tag: #Bonds

Sentiment in the stock market is swinging to the dark side as trade tensions are blamed for fowling up a “global synchronized recovery”. But is that type of stock market natural? Should all markets across the globe go up at the same time for years on end? Doesn’t that mean there is no diversity when […]

A very choppy market this week with the DOW Jones Index leading the way lower while the Russell 2000 and NASDAQ made new all-time highs. The broader indices are in a divergent state which brings confusion to the overall health of the stock market. In my last issue, things looked promising but with the DOW […]

It was a busy news week with International Trade and North Korea but the equity and debt markets stayed rangebound with volatility infecting the currency and commodities markets. Central banks (US & Euro Zone) made announcements that they were going to withdraw their purchasing of bonds and a promise to raise interest rates very gently […]

The U.S. stock markets continued to move higher as we move past the Q1 correction of 2018. However, there was a hiccup on Thursday as the Brazilian stock market dropped 8% in one day! Why? As U.S interest rates move higher there is a butterfly affect on emerging economies that link their currencies to the […]

A good close on Friday for the stock market after a tester on Tuesday that was caused by a dramatic rise in Italian interest rates. The rise was caused by a change in the leadership of the Italian government where the new leadership is skeptical of continued participation in the Euro zone experiment that has […]

The stock market lost its mojo this week as the 10Yr Treasury bond yield made new multi-year highs which gave the stock market pause. The Fed is withdrawing its liquidity and raising interest rates which will normalize the interest rate complex – something were have not seen since before the financial crisis. Let’s take a […]

The stock market had a good week and we may be carving out the beginning of a new uptrend as earnings season begins to wind down. In general, earnings were good so corporate America continues to chug along while the Fed raises interest rates and inflation begins to become part of the 2018 narrative. Inflation […]